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that on the posterior margin dilated on each side ; anterior suture of 

 the pleura black; scutellum large, produced, deeply punctured, with an 

 elongate black mark on the disk, pointed before, the posterior margin 

 slightly carinated; metathorax reticulated with acute carinae. with a 

 transverse basal black spot, the lateral teeth not distinct ; tegulse yel- 

 lowish. Wings hyaline, iridescent; nervures fuscous. Legs yellowish, 

 smooth and shining ; posterior coxas elongate, with a large black spot 

 near the base above and a small acute tooth near the tip ; their femora 

 much swollen, armed beneath with a row of about thirteen black teeth, 

 very small and obtuse at tip and becoming gradually larger and more 

 acute towards the base, the basal one quite large, stout and acute, near 

 the tip and beneath it on each side a small black spot ; their tibiae 

 curved, black at base and acute at tip; extreme tips of the tarsi black- 

 ish. Abdomen short and subglobose in the % , and long and acuminate 

 in the 9 ; smooth and shining, generally more or less black at the tip 

 and banded with blackish on the disk of the second and following seg- 

 ments, sometimes very indistinctly so; petiole about one-fourth as long 

 as the rest of the abdomen in the % , much shorter in the 9 , the apical 

 segments of which are acuminate and pointed. Length 9 , 3 — 3} lines ; 

 S . 2' lines; expanse of wings 4 — 6 lines. 



Collection. — Ent. Soc. Philad. Three 9 , three £ specimens. 



Smiera palens, n. sp. 



Pale yellow: flagellum of antennae, a central stripe and a spot on each side 

 of mesothorax, as well as its anterior and posterior margins, spot on scutellum. 

 tip of metathorax, and stain on tip of abdomen, dusky or black; legs immacu- 

 late, the posterior femora with a row of numerous small dusky teeth : wings 

 hyaline, iridescent. 



Pale clay-yellow, slightly pubescent ; the extreme posterior margin 

 of the head, and the ocelli, blackish ; antennae inserted on the middle 

 of the fice, the scape slender, long, pale yellow, the flagellum fulvous 

 or dusky, stout, but of uniform thickness. Thorax closely and rather 

 finely punctured ; mesothorax with its anterior and posterior margin 

 narrowly blackish, with a central longitudinal stripe dilated in the 

 middle and a spot on each lateral lobe, also blackish; scutellum carinate 

 behind, with a wedge-shaped blackish spot on the disk, pointed before, 

 and on each extreme side a blackish oblique mark ; extreme lateral 

 margin of the postscutellum slightly dusky ; metathorax rugose, its 

 apex blackish ; tegulae pale yellowish. Wings hyaline, iridescent. 

 Legs entirely pale clay-yellow, immaculate ; posterior coxas elongate, 

 stout, with a small blackish tubercle above near the tip ; their femora 

 much swollen, and armed beneath with a row of about thirteen or four- 



